Movie Review: Zombie Holocaust

This past weekend I watched the 1980 spaghetti zombie film, Zombie Holocaust.  I’d heard that it was supposed to be one of the goriest and bloodiest zombie films ever made.  In some ways it was, and in others it wasn’t.  (I’ll paste a YouTube clip of one of the more famous gory scenes.)  In noContinue reading “Movie Review: Zombie Holocaust”

Play Review: Dreams in the Witch House

Over the weekend I went to see the Wildclaw Theatre’s production of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dreams in the Witch House” at the Athenaeum in Chicago, and holy god was it ever good!  Monsters, blood, comedy, tragedy, copious witch-oriented side boob: this play had it all!  I was totally delighted. I’d never been to a “horror play” before,Continue reading “Play Review: Dreams in the Witch House”

Movie Review: American Zombie

Last night, I watched the 2007 mockumentary American Zombie.  It wasn’t very good.  From the outset, I felt a strange disconnect with the film, like I wasn’t the intended audience, or that it was sub-referencing things I didn’t get.  It followed the Waiting for Guffman comedy-documentary paradigm, but the characters weren’t funny or memorable, andContinue reading “Movie Review: American Zombie”